Please don't put black writing in a dark brown box


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I don't know if I'm getting old or what, but I really, really have difficulty reading a PDF where there's black characters in a dark brown box. I wish you would get rid of the dark box. A man can dream...

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hogarth wrote:
I don't know if I'm getting old or what, but I really, really have difficulty reading a PDF where there's black characters in a dark brown box. I wish you would get rid of the dark box. A man can dream...

Can you be a little more specific? Which product was this in? and how often have you seen it?


Dragnmoon wrote:
Can you be a little more specific? Which product was this in? and how often have you seen it?

In the APG PDF and the Ultimate Magic Words of Power playtest PDF, for instance. Is it just my PDF reader?

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hogarth wrote:
Dragnmoon wrote:
Can you be a little more specific? Which product was this in? and how often have you seen it?
In the APG PDF and the Ultimate Magic Words of Power playtest PDF, for instance. Is it just my PDF reader?

It must be you, because I am not seeing that. I see Light characters in dark brown and dark characters in light brown. As all there PDFS are...

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hogarth wrote:
Dragnmoon wrote:
Can you be a little more specific? Which product was this in? and how often have you seen it?
In the APG PDF and the Ultimate Magic Words of Power playtest PDF, for instance. Is it just my PDF reader?

The sidebar type boxes in the APG PDF show up as having a sort of pale yellowish background colour for me – a lot of contrast between the background colour and the text (for example, the sidebar to do with hero points on page 324 of the APG).

Maybe it is your pdf reader or screen settings or something?


Mothman wrote:


The sidebar type boxes in the APG PDF show up as having a sort of pale yellowish background colour for me – a lot of contrast between the background colour and the text (for example, the sidebar to do with hero points on page 324 of the APG).

I'm not talking about sidebars. I'm talking about the spell names, for instance. In my physical copy of the APG, they're light writing on a dark brown box, but Adobe Reader 9 shows the PDF as using black writing on a dark brown box which is almost unreadable.

I wonder how I can change the font settings...

EDIT: On the plus side, it looks like I can turn off "Line Weights" and that gets rid of the brown boxes.

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hogarth wrote:


I'm not talking about sidebars. I'm talking about the spell names, for instance. In my physical copy of the APG, they're light writing on a dark brown box, but Adobe Reader 9 shows the PDF as using black writing on a dark brown box which is almost unreadable.

I wonder how I can change the font settings...

Not having that problem, My PDF looks exactly like the printed book.

I never upgraded to 9 on my PC because they took out the function of selecting images so I can't help you with settings, I am still using 8.

Grand Lodge

I'm using Adobe Reader 9 for Mac and it renders the spell names as yellow text in a dark brown box.

Liberty's Edge

hogarth wrote:
Mothman wrote:


The sidebar type boxes in the APG PDF show up as having a sort of pale yellowish background colour for me – a lot of contrast between the background colour and the text (for example, the sidebar to do with hero points on page 324 of the APG).

I'm not talking about sidebars. I'm talking about the spell names, for instance. In my physical copy of the APG, they're light writing on a dark brown box, but Adobe Reader 9 shows the PDF as using black writing on a dark brown box which is almost unreadable.

I wonder how I can change the font settings...

EDIT: On the plus side, it looks like I can turn off "Line Weights" and that gets rid of the brown boxes.

Ah, sorry, my mistake.

Spell names etc show up as a sort of light yellow text in a dark brown box for me. Adobe Reader 9 on Ms Windows OS.


Mothman wrote:


Spell names etc show up as a sort of light yellow text in a dark brown box for me. Adobe Reader 9 on Ms Windows OS.

Weird...I'm using Adobe Reader 9.4.1 on Windows Vista.


Also, don't put kinky stuff in a dark brown box. Everyone's wise to it by now!

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